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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
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Against this a great objection will lie; There are some who argue, that there 1is no Covenant made betwixt God and us; there is only a Covenant betwixt God and Christ, by virtue of which all Good is derived unto us: The ground of this opinion is drawn from Gal. 3. 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made; he saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Whence they infer, there is no Covenant at all made to us, but only with Christ, or to Christ.
Against this a great objection will lie; There are some who argue, that there 1is no Covenant made betwixt God and us; there is only a Covenant betwixt God and Christ, by vertue of which all Good is derived unto us: The ground of this opinion is drawn from Gal. 3. 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made; he saith not, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Whence they inferre, there is no Covenant at all made to us, but only with Christ, or to Christ.
- 1Sect. 2. Obj. The Covenant is only betwixt God and Christ.
Sol. I desire not to make rents, but where I find them I would willingly make them up again; but of necessity I must consider this present opinion; for if 1this were true, how can this Text I am now upon be true? which saith, I will make an everlasting Covenant, not only for you, but with you. For the better stating and clearing of this doubt and difficulty, I will deliver my self in these Propositions. 1. That there is a Covenant made betwixt God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. 2. That there is a Covenant made betwixt God and every believing person. 3. That the place alleged doth not infringe this truth.